Establishing a social network

Patent №

US 8,713,143

Granted

2014-04-29

Filed 2007

Owner

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

Lab

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11809328

A method of creating social networks designed to facilitate diffusion of desired behavior among groups of people. A social network may be created prior to assigning people to nodes in the network. Communications between people in the network may be controlled and modified to promote diffusion of the desired behavior.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.92
Natural language0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

assignment · 199120730

Assignors

CENTOLA, DAMON MARIO THOMAS, CHRISTAKIS, NICHOLAS ALEXANDER

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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